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Who’s Idea Is This?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Posted by Ray -

Why is it:
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor;
But if you cross the US border illegally you get a drivers license, Social Security card, and free health care?

Who’s bright idea was this?

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Will We Ascribe Our President As God?

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

It was the medieval and ancient times that man regarded the king to be God, or a god. This was the foundation of the Greek myths. It was evidenced in the Bible in the account of Nimrod. The Bible does not go into details of the life of Nimrod, only to mention he was a mighty hunter and established at least eight major cities including Babylon and Ninevah. The secular accounts tell of his gruesome battles and victories and that he was considered to be a god. It was in this mindset that he set about to prevent the people from fulfilling their mandate from God to create urban sprawl and rounded them up to build the Tower of Babel to commemorate and celebrate the accomplishments of man.

King Herod and mere puppet for Caesar considered himself to be a god and did not silence the people when they worshiped him. The Bible tells us, in chapter twelve of Acts, when he accepted the praise of man and failed to give glory to God, he was struck down and immediately eaten by worms and died.

In America, the land of the free and home of the brave, we have become overrun by bureaucrats. Many of them believe themselves to be gods. In fact, they hold the power of God over a man’s life and business. Even many bureaucrats who profess to be Christian, have no fear of God but continue to build empires and despise their brothers’ freedoms.

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Magna Carta: Cement to the Foundation 794 years ago

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Magna Charta 15 June 1215

JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greeting.

KNOW THAT BEFORE GOD, for the health of our soul and those of our ancestors and heirs, to the honour of God, the exaltation of the holy Church, and the better ordering of our kingdom, at the advice of our reverend fathers Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry archbishop of Dublin, William bishop of London, Peter bishop of Winchester, Jocelin bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh bishop of Lincoln, Walter Bishop of Worcester, William bishop of Coventry, Benedict bishop of Rochester, Master Pandulf subdeacon and member of the papal household, Brother Aymeric master of the knighthood of the Temple in England, William Marshal earl of Pembroke, William earl of Salisbury, William earl of Warren, William earl of Arundel, Alan de Galloway constable of Scotland, Warin Fitz Gerald, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert de Burgh seneschal of Poitou, Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip Daubeny, Robert de Roppeley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and other loyal subjects:

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Not Yours to Give; or How We Lost the Fundamentals

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Story taken from The Life of Colonel David Crockett, compiled by Edward S. Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884)

David Crockett Member of Congress 1827-31, 1832-35

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

“Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.

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Declaration of Independence - Why America Exists

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Introduction: Prior to the Revolutionary War, there existed a Congress of the colonies. On July 6th, 1775, the second of these congresses formally established that they had no intention of separating from the English. A second resolution to this effect was adopted on January 6th, 1776. Three days later, Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was distributed, arguing that separation was inevitable and that the sooner it was accomplished, the better off would be the fate of the states.

So controversial was this notion and so divisive the issue, that several colonies instructed their delegates to oppose the notion at all costs. However, as the debate raged on, the English continued their oppression of the settlers and the frustration of their representation and their rights. Keep in mind, that these colonists were British citizens with the rights granted by the Magna Charta and the common law.

On June 7th, Richard Lee, a Congressional delegate from Virginia, made a motion to write a “Declaration of Independence”. On the 10th of June, Thomas Jefferson was selected to compose the document for a committee of five and on the 28th it was presented to the Congress. The motion to reconsider the declaration was taken up on the 1st of July, passing on the second. The declaration was debated on the 3rd, and passed as amended on the 4th. It became unanimous on the 15th and on the 19th, Congress directed the document to be written upon parchment. The formal signing was on the 2nd of Aug, with 53 members present. The last of the 56 signed the declaration on the 4th of November.

Declaration Of Independence

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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